There's much to be said for the consistent ethic.
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- With the House of Representatives voting next week on a measure forcing taxpayers to fund new embryonic stem cell research, White House spokesman Tony Snow said President Bush still doesn't support that.
He reiterated the president's position against destroying human life for science.
Snow told a Wednesday news conference that "the President has made it clear" that he "does not believe that this kind of research necessitates the taking of a human life."
I'm glad that the president is opposed to destroying human life for science. Science should never require human sacrifices. However, I'd really like to see the president come around with a similar stance when it comes to war, poverty, and capital punishment. Destroying human life is wrong in all situations.
It's like a friend of mine in the anti-war/pro-human life movement recently told me, "I'd be more than happy to be pro-life if there was really a pro-life political agenda in existence somewhere." I tell it to my friends in Right to Life all the time--I don't really find that it is possible to actually "vote life." There have been many times that my conscience has told me that I can do far more by advocating than voting. However, I now favor weighing the issues and voting accordingly. There can be no future if there is no inhabitable planet. The concerns of war, hunger, disease, and the environment are real and they are driving the human race to extinction.
Fr. Pavone of Priests for Life feels the same way, according to their voting guide. I have a problem with giving any credence to pro-abortionists, but that party which came back into office almost exclusively under a pro-life fueled smokescreen hasn't even slowed abortion, and is acting like a wanton savage across the world even as we speak. Talk is apparently cheap, so yes, it may be better to bring in people with compassion for many, and to advocate hard for life while we work with them for some limits.
Our voting system is whacked. Imho, the first voter step toward re-instilling sanity in this land is to change one's party affiliation to none: Undeclared.
Posted by: Carol | January 11, 2007 at 06:04 PM